Posted by Johnnymac 11:06 AM
My take on Friday is that I got my ass handed to me for the 2nd night in a row - minus another $350. No limit can be expensive. Looking back, I think that's Monday's $400 loss was too fresh in my mind for me to have played effectively two nights later. Even though my "house money" from the past year is still deep enough to cover my losses from last week, I was still playing scared and that's no way to play no limit. I am sure that I was bluffed a couple of different times and I know for sure that I twice laid down winners in the face of big bets into even bigger pots.

My hand of the night was a rematch with Fro - I have AA and decide to slowplay before the flop. I limp in with a lot of callers. The flop comes 727. I make a pot sized bet of $20 and Fro is my only caller. The paired flop scares me because I know that Craig likes to play middle connecting cards and therefore he may have a 7. The turn is another deuce giving the board 7272 I bet the $60 pot and Fro raises me by about $140 to make an even $200. I have flashbacks of Monday night - that he tried to lure me in with a big bet on a nut hand and that now he may think that I think that a small bet would signify an opportunity to come over the top and thus he's betting big to lure me in thinking that this time I will think he's bluffing on a nothing hand because a small bet last time would have lured me in when a big bet didn't do it last time it might this time and besides my AA only has two outs to a very ugly and dangerous board and anybody else overbets like that and they are begging for a call, but this is FRO and Fro is sneaky and he knows it's ME and he knows that I will think about him differently than someone else so maybe he just might be... whew. My mind was tied in knots and he knew it.

So I mucked.

And even today 72 hours later I have no idea where he was. I laid down AA and it was hard, but maybe it was the right decision. Then again, a win that size would have changed the whole night for me.

What a game.

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